Chris Smith (MFA 1999, Film) directed a Netflix documentary on the new wave/post-punk band Devo. After premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2024, Netflix picked up the project and released it to streaming services on August 19. The …
Dawn Springer (Teaching Faculty I) of Dawn Springer Dance Company takes her new contemporary ballet “Sylph” to the Ferro Pavilion at the George Williams College of Aurora University in Geneva Lake, WI. Springer sat for an interview with Fox 6’s …
Soyeong Emma Chang (BFA 2021, Film) was featured in Shoutout LA for her growing career as a filmmaker. Chang shared how her undergraduate studies at UW-Milwaukee, where she worked closely with the late Carl Bogner, helped shape her artistic path. …
The New York Times highlighted Door County’s Northern Sky Theatre in a feature by Elisabeth Vincentelli, with several Peck School of the Arts connections at the center of its 2025 summer season. Assistant Professor Jason Orlenko (BA 2008, Theatre Studies) …
Tommy Simms (BFA 2011, Art) was featured in Shepherd Express for his claymation music video created for Milwaukee rock group Fuzzysurf, which will be screened at the Milwaukee International Short Film Festival this September. Written by Keegan Mihm, the article …
Alums Liz Bachhuber (BFA 1976, Art) and Jill Sebastian (MFA 1979, Art) have collaborated in a new art exhibition about recycling and upcycling titled Eat My Words, which will be featured at Madison’s James Watrous Gallery of Wisconsin from August …
Nathinel Stern (Professor and Co-chair, Art & Design; Director, UWM Startup Challenge) had his recent exhibition featured by Forbes magazine. The exhibition, titled “Generation to Generation: Conversing with Kindred Technologies,” is a collaboration with poet Sasha Stiles and focuses on …
A solo exhibition by UWM alum Melissa Scherrer Pare (BFA 1999, Art: Photography) is on view at MOWA | DTN, the museums gallery located inside Saint Kate–The Arts Hotel in downtown Milwaukee. The exhibition, Melissa Scherrer Paré: Natural Selection, features …
UWM alum and Chicago mixed-media artist and muralist Laura Lynne (BFA 2021, Painting & Drawing) spoke with Jamie Baker of Kane County Magazine about her experience using collaboration in her practice. “I hired another artist to assist, Mari Dzhelasi, and …
When Trusted Media Brands creative director James Stepanek decided to open a new gallery in Bay View, he invited Shane Walsh (Teaching Faculty I, Art & Design) to be the first artist to exhibit work. Walsh’s solo exhibition, Extra Pickles, …
Filmmaker and UWM alum NK Xiong (BFA 2022, Film) talked with Jimmy Gutierrez of WUWM 89.7 about her new documentary “Why My Dad Loves,” which tells the story of her father and his understanding of love after facing persecution in …
A podcast produced by and featuring students enrolled in this semester’s Radical Cinema course was recently featured on WXRW Riverwest Radio. The course, taught by Portia Cobb (Professor, Film), examines global art movements, politics, cultural movements, social issues and historical …
Distinguished Professor René Izquierdo (Guitar Area Head, Music Department) will close Milwaukee Musaik’s 2025 spring season with a full chamber orchestra as part of a program called “Guitar Grandmaster.” In the article written by Michael Barndt for Urban Milwaukee, chamber …
Soprano Kathryn Henry (BFA 2016, Music) returns to Wisconsin after making a name for herself in the opera world, namely at New York City’s Metroplitan Opera House. She returns to perform at Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera in their production of “Carmen.” …
A new play adapted for the stage by Alvaro Saar Rios (Associate Professor and Area Head, Theater Practices) had its world premiere in Milwaukee this month. “Esperanza Rising,” based on the novel by Pam Muñoz Ryan, premiered at First Stage. …
